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Town Voids $35 Parking Ticket Issued to Local Woman

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Town officials last week voided a $35 ticket issued to a local woman who’d pulled into one of the permitted spots in the Park Street Lot thinking it was free. During a May 6 appeal hearing before the Parking Commission, Lilly Kong said that she understood the entire Park Street Lot to be free. 

“It’s a very consistent message saying ‘park in the Park Street Lot, it’s three hours free’ and I have that imprinted in my mind, so the day I parked there I just saw the sign,” Kong told the Commission during the hearing, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. However, the row of spaces along the northern edge of the lot are for permit-holders only — a fact that had been spelled out on signs in the lot, but not specified on a prior version of the town’s “parking map” posted online. Kong said that after she got the ticket, she went to parking officials and noted that the map didn’t account for the permitted spaces in the Park Street Lot. 

That town parking map has since been updated. Commission Chair Nancy Bemis, Secretary Kevin Karl and members Katie O’Neill and Marley Thackray voted 4-0 to void the ticket.

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Town Upholds $30 Ticket Issued to Former Resident Who Didn’t Know There Was Paid Parking on Elm

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Town officials during a recent meeting voted to uphold a $30 ticket that had been issued to a former New Canaan resident who didn’t pay for parking on Elm Street. Robert Hegeman, now of Norwalk, told members of the Parking Commission during their Feb. 4 meeting that he returned to New Canaan for lunch without realizing he now had to pay. “I parked on the south side of the street and exited toward the rear of the car, and crossed to the north side of the street where Solé is, and just didn’t see the signage,” Hegeman told the appointed body. “So I came back and saw the ticket, downloaded the app and will be paying going forward.

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Town Upholds $30 Ticket Issued for Overstaying on Elm

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Town officials last week upheld a $30 ticket issued to a woman who hadn’t paid for parking on Elm Street. Caroline Burke told members of the Parking Commission during an appeal hearing that she tried to download the Pay-By-Phone app on the afternoon of Jan. 8 but it wouldn’t allow her to upload her credit card information to create an account. “I had trouble just downloading the app,” Burke told the Commission during her Feb. 4 hearing, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.

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Town Upholds $30 Ticket Issued to Local Man

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Town officials on Wednesday upheld a $30 ticket issued to a longtime resident who failed to pay for parking on Elm Street. Ken Oxman told members of the Parking Commission during an appeal hearing that he and his wife had no idea that the town switched to paid parking on Elm (and part of South Avenue). “We knew nothing about the parking meters,” Oxman told the Commission during his hearing, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. Oxman said he and his wife visit downtown New Canaan only rarely and that none of the people they knew ever mentioned the switchover. “I wasn’t taking a chance,” he said, adding: “I had no idea, even when I parked I had no idea.

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‘We Do Not Get the Advertiser These Days’: Parking Ticket Appeals

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The Parking Commission recently received the following written appeals from motorists ticketed in New Canaan. ***

“Didn’t realize town Hall was open when I parked otherwise would never have parked there @ 7:30 AM. [A parking enforcement officer] saw me park there. She could have yelled and told me no parking, instead I got a ticket.”

—$30 for Town Hall lot parking when not in Town Hall, issued at 7:50 a.m. on Jan. 12

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“I am appealing the ticket because I was at work with a client and unable to get back to my vehicle in time.